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Teaching with Eagle Eye

Bringing the tools of engineering practice into the classroom

Students build a deeper understanding through visualization and simulation, working with the same apps they will later use in practice

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What the platform provides

Each participating faculty member is supported by a dedicated assistant from the team, who walks through the material and the apps before the semester, sets up the course group, helps the students sign up, and remains available through the term.

Teaching with Eagle Eye: Information Package
The program, how a course starts, access and the four course packages, in one document to keep or share.
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How a course starts

  1. The faculty member chooses the course and the topics where support is required. The course outlines here show what is available for each course.
  2. The course is registered on the Eagle Eye platform, and a dedicated assistant is assigned. The material and the apps are walked through together in a live online session.
  3. A private group for the course is created on the Eagle Eye Community, joined by the class, the faculty member, and a teaching assistant from the team.
  4. The faculty member provides the list of students joining the course. The students sign up, preferably with their university-assigned email; a single sign-up takes two to three minutes, and each student on the list receives an access coupon.
  5. The course proceeds as usual, with the apps available on the classroom projector and on students’ own devices at home, and the assistant available throughout the term.

Already in the classroom

Asian Institute of Technology

Asian Institute of Technology

The Eagle Eye apps, the Learning Hub and the course groups are already in use this semester in a master's level Advanced Concrete Design course at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), and the program is currently supporting an undergraduate structural design course at Chulalongkorn University. The course packages offered in this program draw on those classroom experiences, and the same team that supports those courses will support each new one.

Who is behind this

The academic program is led by Dr. Naveed Anwar, working with a team of academics, researchers, and former and current students. Dr. Anwar has spent 44 years across university teaching and structural engineering practice. He is a faculty member at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, and CEO of CSI Bangkok, and has long been associated with Computers and Structures, Inc. (CSI). The program grew out of the courses that he and the team teach and support.

Access and registration

Course registration

Each course offered by a faculty member at a particular university is registered on the Eagle Eye platform. Registration is handled by the Eagle Eye team with the faculty member.

Faculty access

Faculty members receive Pro-level access to the platform free of charge, for one year at a time, renewable each year.

Student access

Students on the class list receive access coupons for the GEAR apps and Column Designer at the Pro level, free of charge, for six months, so the full functionality is available for learning.

After six months

Student access reverts to the Basic level unless the student enrolls in another registered course. The apps remain usable at the Basic level, and the Learning Hub and the Community remain open to them.

Sign-up

Students sign up on the platform, preferably using their university-assigned email. The class list provided by the faculty member is the reference for joining the course.

University listing

With the university’s permission, given at registration, the university is listed on the Eagle Eye website as using Eagle Eye for education.

Courses supported today

Each course has a detailed outline with its learning objectives, topics, and the apps it uses. Further courses will follow the same pattern.

Course names differ between universities. A course keeps its own title, and at registration it is mapped to the package and topics that fit it; using part of a package is normal.

Strength of Materials

Also taught as Mechanics of Materials, Mechanics of Solids I and II, Solid Mechanics

Stress distributions, Mohr’s Circle, section properties, nonlinear material behavior, biaxial and unsymmetrical bending.

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Structural Analysis

Also taught as Theory of Structures I and II, Structural Analysis I and II, Structural Mechanics

Trusses, beams and frames; classical methods compared with the direct stiffness method.

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Reinforced Concrete Design

Also taught as Concrete Design, RC Design I and II, Design of Concrete Structures

Beams, columns, two-way slabs and footings to the ACI method; moment-curvature and performance evaluation.

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Steel Design

Also taught as Design of Steel Structures, Steel Structures, Structural Steel Design

Tension and compression members, beams and columns to the AISC method; roof truss systems.

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Several other courses can be supported at the app level, including first-year engineering mechanics and some graduate courses. An enquiry is welcome at [email protected].

Course contents

The material available today for each course package. Resources still being prepared are marked “Coming soon”.

Course
Strength of Materials
Lecture Slides

The complete set of slides used to teach this course.

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Solved Examples

Step-by-step worked examples from input to final results.

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Animations

Concepts explained through clear, visual animations.

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Course Tutorial Videos

Video walkthroughs and tutorials for every lesson.

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Validation

Validation examples confirming accuracy against benchmarks.

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Which app serves which course

Structural Analysis is the same course often titled Theory of Structures.

Named in the course package Useful supporting fit (proposed)
Eagle Eye appStrength of MaterialsStructural AnalysisRC DesignSteel Design

Common questions

There is no charge to students or to faculty members. Faculty members receive Pro-level access free for one year at a time, renewable each year, and students in a registered course receive six months of Pro-level access free of charge. The course support described here will remain free. Advanced features planned for later, such as assignment management and automatic grading, may in time carry an institution-level subscription; any such charge would fall on the institution, never on students or on individual faculty members.

The packages are built with this concern in mind. Every topic includes validation examples in which the same problem is solved by hand and in the app, side by side, with matching results. Students continue to derive, to solve by hand, and to sit the same examinations; the apps allow them to check their work and to see the behavior that the manual methods describe.

Each app is accompanied by verification materials in the Learning Hub, comparing its results with manual solutions, and the validation examples in each course package do the same for the course topics.

A laptop or a lab computer with a browser; tablets also work. The apps are not yet optimized for phones, although the videos and the course group can be followed on a phone. Since nothing is installed, the apps behave the same at the university and at home.

A course can begin with a single topic. The materials are prepared, the assistant handles the setup, and the syllabus and examination need not change. Most of the effort lies in choosing where the apps best serve the course.

The course group is the first place to ask. The assigned assistant follows each query and answers or resolves it. Beyond the course, the Community’s Ask section answers technical questions with the method, the relevant code clause, and where a tool performs the check.

The design apps follow the widely taught international codes. The currently supported design courses use the ACI and AISC methods, and the Eagle Eye apps implement the design methods from these codes.

No. Course titles and syllabi differ between universities, and the packages are generic by design, much as a textbook serves courses with many different names. A course keeps its own title, and at registration it is mapped to the package and topics that fit it. One package can serve differently named courses, one course may draw on more than one package, and using only part of a package is normal. The assigned assistant helps with this mapping.

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Course details submitted here are used to assign a dedicated assistant who helps get the course started.

Select all that apply. Not listed? Choose Other and enter the course title as the university names it. Mapping to the Eagle Eye content is done together after registration.